![]() RIM clearly missed that date–in fact, the company told me initially that the software would be available in the “first half of 2009”–but it did drop a somewhat misleading press release in the last days of September that made it seem like the company had achieved its target release date…sort of. I used a SanDisk 16GB Ultra microSDHC card in my trials, and I reformatted it and ran through the very same process a number of times to simulate a new user experience, but was never able to successfully sync up more than six GBs of music at a time. Specifically, the sync process stopped after an hour or so, leaving me frustrated and my device frozen until I force-quit the program and reformatted my memory card. I was able to sync small amount of media from my iTunes library between my BlackBerry Bold and MacBook–as much as six GBs–but as soon as I tried syncing any amount of data more than 10GB, I encountered problems. But therein lies one of the biggest problems I have with the new BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac: media sync troubles. Unlike current version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Windows PCs, the Mac-version incorporates BlackBerry Media Sync, so there’s no longer any need to employ an addition program for syncing media files between your computer and RIM handheld. ![]() BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac performs all the basic syncing functionality a BlackBerry user needs. Gone are the days when Mac users had to resort to expensive third-party BlackBerry syncing programs like The Missing Sync or PocketMac for their personal information management (PIM) needs. If it’s more specifics on features that you seek, read “BlackBerry Software for Mac: Four Brand New Features,” and “Four Things You Didn’t Know About Desktop Manager for Mac.” Anyone interested had only to download and install that unofficial version to witness the fruits of RIM Mac developers’ labors over the past couple of years.įor the purposes of this review, I’ll stick to high-level observations about the final build–features or bugs that I believe are noteworthy, even if you’ve already spent time poking around the leaked beta. Little remains unknown about this new BlackBerry software for Apple users, since both unofficial and official walkthroughs of Desktop Manager for Mac are available online, and a near-final version leaked a couple of weeks back. The BlackBerry-maker was nice enough to send me the official build a few days ago, and I’ve been putting it through the paces ever since. Today, RIM plans to make good on those claims, by publicly releasing the free BlackBerry Desktop Manager v1.0.0 (build 89) at 1 PM EST. More than a year ago, I brought you the first official confirmation from Research In Motion (RIM) that it would release a long-awaited Macintosh-compatible version of its BlackBerry Desktop Manager software in 2009. ![]()
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